What is "amilakhvari"

The Amilkhvari was a noble house of Georgia which rose to prominence in the fifteenth century and held a large fiefdom in central Georgia until the Imperial Russian annexation of the country in 1801. They were hereditary marshals (amilakhvar/amilakhor) of Georgia from c. 1433, from which the family takes its name. Subsequently, the family was received among the princes ( knyaz) of the Empire under the name of Amilakhvarov (, 1825) and Amilakhvari (Амилахвари, 1850).